Using Ruby’s Vector class, and some custom Rails methods The Types of Recommendation Systems There are 2 widely used systems to recommend products to customers, whether that product be physical goods like Amazon sells, television shows or movies like Netflix, or even other user’s profile pages like Facebook. Collaborative Filtering Collaborative filtering compares the likes, dislikes, and…

A Look at Functional vs Class Components with React Hooks — Nope. Thanks for reading! . . Oh I have to explain myself? Alright fine… Quick Background So when I first learned React, you had to make a choice when creating a component. You could create the component as a simple function that returns some JSX (hence its called a Functional Component), or…

How an incredibly sticky app and pivot into podcasting have set this company up for massive profitability — What Are the Best Businesses To Be In? My personal opinion is that two of the best business models ever created are software companies and media companies. Why? Well, both are extremely scaleable and easily distributable. Once a piece of software is created, or a piece of content is recorded, it can be distributed digitally across the entire…

Background As of writing this, Spotify is the world’s largest audio entertainment platform, dominating the music streaming industry with a 31% market share (to Apple Music’s 15%) and rapidly growing in the podcasting space with a 20% market share (2nd to Apple Podcast’s 43%). …

Learn what web scraping is and see some of the best tutorials for Python web scraping Python is a versatile language that can be used for a variety of purposes, one of which is known as web scraping. …

Recently, I have been working on more analytical side of web development, and have really been trying to understand what drives different user behavior. Specifically, I have been focusing on one question that I find extremely interesting: “Which user action is more correlated to user retention at the 1–months and…

A detailed explanation of React’s system for reusing component logic Have you ever been working in a codebase or been watching a tutorial online and come across something that looks like this: export default withResponsive(Home) Well then you already have encountered a Higher Order Component whether you’ve realized it or…

Using Amplitude’s npm library Amplitude Amplitude is a data analytics startup that aims to make adding analytics to your web or mobile app simple and easy. It is a Y Combinator company and has backing from some major VC firms such as Sequoia. Due to its effectiveness and simplicity, they have…

How to use Redux’s useSelector and useDispatch hooks — Before reading this you should familiarize yourself with what Redux is and how to use it in React class components. Setup Start by creating a new react app. I’ll be using a package called Redux Toolkit to get the shell of the app set up quickly. …